Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-02-17
THE LOST WOMAN.
THE MYSTERY DREPEss AROUND THE
DIsAPPEARbEcg OF MRS. WALKER.
Her Friends Unable 10 Find Her-some
Eew Facts in the
Case.

Richmond know how to find it, or even
in which direction 10 look for it.
Going up Seventeenth street, seven
squares from Main, Venable street is
found branching out obliquely to the
left. Continuing up this steep street,
and passing and leaving Christ church
about two squares behind, Tulip street
is seen, crossing Vepable, fand sand
wiched in between Jessamine and Pink.
On this street, in a one-story, II
shaped frame house, No. 912, lived
Mrs. Walker, who disappeared last Fri
day about midnight and has not since
been seen or heard from.
A Areporter of this paper called there
yesterday morning, knocked at the
door, and was met and invited in by MIR.
G. w. White, the missing woman's SON
in-law.
"Have you heard anything of Mrs.
Walker yet?" was asked.
"Not a word, replied Mr.. White, in
bis quiet and courteous way. owe
have searched everywhere, or, any way,
almost everywhere; for the very fact
that we haven't found her shows we
have not looked everywhere"
THE DISAPPEARANCE.
"Give me an account of the dissp-
pearance?"
"Well, sir, the story is soon told.
1t won't take many words. Last Fri
day night. after my wife and had re-
tired. Mrs. Walker, who slept in an ad-
hoininR room, came into our room, and,
approaching the bedside, said to my
wife: 'Kittie, give me the shawl. We
were both awake and heard her. My
wife said: Mother, are you sick !?
What's the matter?' The old lady an
swered that she was not sick, but that
she wanted the shawl TO throw around
her, as she was going out into the
yard. My wife reached down
the shawl was on the foot of
the bed where we kept it SO
that if we got cold during the night
We could pull it up over us-my
wife reached down, got the shawl,
and handed it to her mother,
who went into her own room,
from there out of the side door, and
has since been missing. Some little
time after she went out by wife went
TO the door and called, and receiving
no response, went into the yard, but
could not find any trace of Mrs.
Walker. Both gates leading into the
ward even were closed"
Did your wife or you hear no
sound 2"
"NOne whatever. We heard no
noise and could see no trace on the
ground of footsteps"
MRS. WALKERS CONDITION.
"What was Mrs. Walkers mental and
physical condition
"Splendid in both respects. She
was usually cheerful, and the night be
fore was as bright as usual. She is
seventy-seven years old, slept like a
baby, never wore specs, and always
seemed to be in perfect health.
"Did you see her that night when
she came to the bedside?
"No; there was no light in the
room"
"You can't say, then, whether she
was dressed or not ?"
"No; but it is fair to suppose she
was, as all of her daily clothing, except
her corset, was gone.
"What do you mean by her daily
clothing ?"
The clothes she wore about the
house-an old gray dress of some wool
len or worsted material, and the shawl
was brown, with figures worked in the
corner. / don't suppose she had any
intention of going into the street, foI
she is usually very prim in her dress,
and she wouldn't have gone out In heI
old clothes. And yet where else could
she have gone ,"
"Yes: She must have gone into tho
street. Was she subject to temporary
alterations Of mind?
"No; she was at all times perfectly
sane and sensible in all her words and
deeds" o..
,Is there well on the premises?
"No: but there are several III the
neichborhood. They all have tops to
them, though, and it would be impos
sible for any one to fall in one without
raising the top"
"How large was She"
"Abont medium height and weighed
about 10 or 115 pounds. :"
"Was she a church-member ?
"She belonged to Venable-Street
Baptist church. For years she was
member of the First church when sh,
lived on the other hill. She would
have gone to church Friday night If i
hadn't rained in the afternoon"
"Where did she live on the othel
hill?"
son Fourth street between jackson
and Duval.
| FAMILY HISTORY.
"Who is her husband?"
"He's dead. His name was Rober
Walker, and for years he was deput,
marshal of the city of Richmond.
"Was she fond of going out?